Abstract
Flexible thin-film organic semiconductor devices have received wide attention due to favorable properties such as light-weight, flexibility, reproducible semiconductor resources, easy tuning of functional properties via molecular tailoring, and low cost large-area solution-procession. Among them, ultraflexible electronics, usually with minimum bending radius of less than 1 mm, are essential for the development of epidermal and bio-implanted electronics, wearable electronics, collapsible and portable electronics, three dimensional (3D) surface compliable electronics, and bionics. This review firstly gives a brief introduction of development from flexible to ultraflexible organic semiconductor electronics, and design of ultraflexible devices, then summarizes the recent advances in ultraflexible thin-film organic semiconductor devices, focusing on organic field effect transistors, organic light-emitting diodes, organic solar cells and organic memory devices.
摘要
柔性薄膜有机半导体器件由于其轻便、 柔性、 有机半导体的可重复制备及易于进行功能性调节、 以及低成本、 大面积溶液加工等特性而受到广泛关注. 其中, 弯曲半径不超过1 mm的超柔性电子对可折叠/便携设备、可穿戴设备、 表皮及植入式电子设备、 三维表面贴合型器件以及仿生学等领域的发展至关重要. 本综述首先简要介绍了从柔性到超柔性电子的发展史以及超柔性有机器件的设计. 接着, 聚焦于超柔性的有机场效应管、 有机发光二极管、 有机太阳能电池以及有机存储器等有机半导体功能器件领域的最新进展进行了总结评述.
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Yan Qian is an Associate Professor at Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications. She received her BSc degree in chemistry from Anhui University (China) in 2002 and PhD degree in chemistry from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007. Since then, she has been worked at the Institute of Advanced Materials, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications. Her research interests include design of organic opto/electronic functional materials and investigation of their structure-property relationship, especially organic photophysics.
Xiaodong Chen is an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his BSc degree in chemistry from Fuzhou University (China) in 1999, MSc degree in physical chemistry from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2002, and PhD degree in biochemistry from the University of Muenster (Germany) in 2006. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Northwestern University (USA), he started his independent research career as a Singapore National Research Foundation Fellow and Nanyang Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University in 2009. He was promoted to Associate Professor in September of 2013. His research interests include programmable materials for energy con-version, flexible/stretchable devices and integrated nano-bio interfaces.
Wei Huang received his PhD degree from Peking University in 1992. In 1993, he began his postdoctoral research at the National University of Singapore. In 2001, he was appointed as a chair professor of Fudan University, where he founded and chaired the Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM). In 2006, he was appointed vice president of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Now, he is the president of Nanjing Tech University. He was elected as Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. His research interests include organic/plastic materials and devices, nanomaterials, and nanotechnology.
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Qian, Y., Zhang, X., Qi, D. et al. Thin-film organic semiconductor devices: from flexibility to ultraflexibility. Sci. China Mater. 59, 589–608 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40843-016-5091-1
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